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Monday, August 20, 2012

Planet P Project - Why Me?

Long time reader Krista requested this, and I have to say that it is an excellent pick, even if it did take me a minute to even remember the song.

Planet P Project (named after a planet from Robert A. Heinlein's book Starship Troopers) was an experimental band comprised of keyboardist Tony Carey and producer Peter Hauke. Carey had previously played in Rainbow from 1976-77, and was working on his solo career in the early 1980s. While Carey's solo work was relatively straight ahead rock, Planet P Project provided an outlet for his avant-garde side.

Amazingly, "Why Me?" caught somebody's eye at MTV and the video went into moderate rotation for a while. It was definitely among the stranger things being played on the channel at the time, both musically and visually. While "Why Me?" did not break the top 40, it did chart -- hitting #64, and helped the self-titled album reach #42 on the charts. When the follow up album, 1984's Pink World only reached #121, Carey dropped Plant P, although he did reform the concept in 2005 and has released three albums in recent years.